A figure like Ecclesiast/
Rugged and luminous,
chants in the dark/
A text that is an answer,
although obscure.
— Wallace Stevens,
"An Ordinary Evening
in New Haven"
|
Time and Chance |
From 8/02
in 2005:
| 50 Years Ago on this date, poet Wallace Stevens died. Memorial: at the Wallace Stevens Concordance, enter center. |
Result:
| The Man with the Blue Guitar | |
|---|---|
| line 150 (xiii.6): | The heraldic center of the world |
| Human Arrangement | |
| line 13: | The center of transformations that |
| This Solitude of Cataracts | |
| line 18: | Breathing his bronzen breath at the azury center of time. |
| A Primitive Like an Orb | |
| line 1 (i.1): | The essential poem at the center of things, |
| line 87 (xi.7): | At the center on the horizon, concentrum, grave |
| Reply to Papini | |
| line 33 (ii.15): | And final. This is the center. The poet is |
| Study of Images II | |
| line 7: | As if the center of images had its |
| An Ordinary Evening in New Haven | |
| line 291 (xvii.3): | It fails. The strength at the center is serious. |
| line 371 (xxi.11): | At the center, the object of the will, this place, |
| Things of August | |
| line 154 (ix.18): | At the center of the unintelligible, |
| The Hermitage at the Center | |
| Title: | The Hermitage at the Center |
| Owl's Clover, The Old Woman and the Statue (OP) | |
| line 13 (ii.9): | At the center of the mass, the haunches low, |
| The Sail of Ulysses (OP) | |
| line 50 (iv.6): | The center of the self, the self |
| Someone Puts a Pineapple Together (NA) | |
| line 6 (i.6): | The angel at the center of this rind, |
| Of Ideal Time and Choice (NA) | |
| line 29: | At last, the center of resemblance, found |
| line 32: | Stand at the center of ideal time, |
For a text on today's
mid-day number, see